The Voyage of the Vagabond

This is the log of a weeks voyage in a Broads yacht undertaken by four people and a beagle.

It all began when the four people, minus the beagle visited the 1963 Boat Show at Earl’s Court amidst the snow and ice of the winter of 1962-63. The whole idea of a holiday ‘away from it all’ seemed so appealing at the time that even the thought of being accompanied by, slept with, slept on, bullied for food and generally cajoled by a very determined beagle was not sufficient to deter these four boat and adventure loving Englishmen (and women).

After much scanning of catalogues, consultation with ‘the man on the stand’, discussion (by the men) of the relative sailing qualities of various yachts and conferring (by the women) as to which yacht had the prettiest name (at one time Wood Sorrel was hot favorite) Vagabond was finally decided upon as being the yacht which best satisfied the requirements of all nautically, aesthetically and economically and she was duly hired for the week 20th - 27th April 1963 in the hope that the snow and ice would have gone by then. They had, and this is what happened during that fateful week.

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